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A headstock decal with the Gibson logo replaced both the old stark white silkscreened 'Gibson' of the thirties and the slogan "Only a Gibson Is Good Enough." It also had a more rounded, "baseball bat" style neck, as opposed to the "V" shape of the J-35 neck.
The pickguard on the 1960s Telecaster Bass was slightly more slender and employed more mounting screws than the originals of the 1950s. There were also three different headstock decals in the early version. The earliest had a regular silver Telecaster guitar logo with the word "bass" added underneath. Only prototypes are known to have this decal.
In some sense, the Peavey EVH Wolfgang guitar [8] picked up where the Ernie Ball Music Man EVH model left off [9] with the prototype design being made by Peavey Design Engineer/Luthier Jim DeCola [10] (an amber quilted top model which still didn't have the Wolfgang headstock shape, but rather a Peavey classic one). On the second prototype ...
While the guitar was known as the Telecaster Custom, the decal on the headstock read "Custom Telecaster". Later editions of the Telecaster Custom were popularized by Rolling Stones' guitarist and composer Keith Richards, featuring a Fender Wide Range humbucker in the neck position and a single-coil pickup in the bridge. To distinguish this ...
Later models had the decal horizontally at the top of the headstock. DIA — possibly short for "Diamond." Identical to Phase 2 Hi-Flier, mostly sunburst, with an inlaid "DIA" logo or circular "Dia" decal. PAN — three types. An early version identical to a Phase 1 with a small black decal of a Pan figure playing a set of pan pipes, and "Pan ...
By the mid-1970s (c.1976) the headstock logo design changed to a gold "Martin-style" decal that said "Sigma Guitars" in script with "Est. 1970" underneath in a smaller block font. The headstock shape was also modified to a deeper taper and shaped to resemble the Martin instruments.